Monthly Archives: April 2009

A Prince William County Circuit Court says a non-stock corporation organized to provide care for mentally retarded and disabled persons has charitable immunity from a negligence action filed by a 25-year old mentally retarded client with cerebral palsy, who suffered ...

Plaintiff was riding a motorcycle when he was struck by the defendant and knocked from the motorcycle. He suffered a fractured clavicle, wrist and thumb. After extensive care, he made a good recovery from most of his injuries. He was ...

Lee Trollinger was killed when he was struck in the rear by a tractor-trailer operated by an employee of Dot Transportation. His car burst into flames as a result of the impact. The decedent left a wife and two sons from ...

Claimant was employed by the respondent pursuant to an employment contract executed shortly before the start of the claimant’s employment. This employment contract provided for 12 months of severance pay (with a partial offset for income from new employment). Several ...

The plaintiff was a 61-year-old female with a previous history of breast cancer. She went to the emergency room with complaints of increasing shortness of breath at rest, a fever and right chest wall pain. She was admitted to the ...

The economic downturn has brought reports of a jump in legal malpractice claims, but – at least so far – it’s not a universal trend. The increase in claims seems to be hitting larger firms that are involved in business ...

A Spotsylvania County Circuit Court jury has returned a $7.5 million verdict for the widower of a registered nurse who died from breast cancer. The nurse, Eleanor Browder, went to her family practitioner, Donna J. Gamache, in May 2003 and ...

Companies often targeted by plaintiffs in asbestos litigation are fighting back against lawyers and others who used now-discredited mass screenings to identify thousands of lung disease claimants. A Virginia lawyer is among those sued in Mississippi for allegedly helping to ...

Two Charlottesville attorneys representing a former Fluvanna County resident have won a $256 million class action judgment against credit repair organizations and the two brothers who ran them. Collecting the judgment may be a problem, Garrett Smith and Greg Duncan ...

William & Mary law professor Davison M. Douglas has been named dean of the W&M law school. Taylor Reveley, president of the college, made the announcement late last month. Pending approval by the William & Mary Board of Visitors in ...